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83rd anniversary of the deportation of the first Poles to KL Auschwitz - National Day of Remembrance
15-06-2023
14 June 1940 is considered the beginning of the functioning of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. On that day, the Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the Tarnów prison to Auschwitz. The group included soldiers who had fought against the German invasion in September 1939, members of underground independence organisations, secondary school and university students, and a small number of Polish Jews. They were given numbers from 31 to 758.
37th session of the International Auschwitz Council
15-06-2023
The 37th session of the International Auschwitz Council took place on June 12 and 13 in Gdansk and Stutthof. The activities of the Auschwitz Memorial and the work of the Stutthof Museum and its branch, the Piasnica Museum in Wejherowo, were the main topics discussed during the two-day meeting. This was the first time in the history of the IAC that a meeting was held in Gdansk and Stutthof. The session was chaired by Grzegorz Berendt, PhD.
Unique photographs of the deportation of the first Poles to the German camp Auschwitz discovered
14-06-2023
An exceptional collection of photographs depicting the deportation of the first Poles to the newly established German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which took place 78 years ago on June 14, 1940, has been discovered and published. Digital reproductions of these significant documents were given to the Museum by a Tarnów collector Marek Tomaszewski, the author of the publication "Tarnów – KL Auschwitz: The First Transport to Hell."
"Memory is not synonymous with knowledge of historical facts". Debate about a book by Filip Müller in Amsterdam.
08-06-2023
On the occasion of the publication of the Dutch translation of the book "In the Crematoriums of Auschwitz" by Auschwitz survivor and Sonderkommando member Filip Müller, a meeting titled "Culture of Genocide" took place on June 2 at the deBalie cultural center in Amsterdam. The conversation was between Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, and a writer Arnon Grunberg.